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RE: Emacs key bindings not working



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
> Behalf Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 6:20 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Emacs key bindings not working
> 
> This is a terminal issue.  The key bindings work fine if you run emacs
> under X (which is the way I almost always use it) or under mintty.
> They
> probably work under rxvt also, but I haven't tried that.  You may have
> to remove tty from your CYGWIN variable if you use these other
> terminals.  (I'm not positive about that.)
> 

Thanks. How do you do this though? I've never tried changing terminals.

I've tried xemacs, but it doesn't work with my screen reader.

Brandon

> > By the way, I know ruby-mode comes with version 22 and higher I
> think. Will
> > the emacs package in Cygwin be upgraded soon?
> 
> The emacs maintainer has been having problems building new versions.
> See
> 
>     http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00354.html
> 
> If no one else volunteers, I'll offer to help get it done.  At this
> point, however, it probably makes sense to wait for emacs 23, which
> should be released fairly soon.  Also, emacs 22 and 23 need to be built
> with gcc4, and I'd like to wait until that's no longer experimental.
> If
> you're impatient, you can install Angelo Graziosi's build:
> 
>     http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/cygwin/emacs/Emacs.html
> 
> Ken
> 
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